A hard core of yellow vests continued Saturday to beat the pavement in France, including Amiens and Toulouse, during the 28th Saturday in a row demonstrations against the social and tax policy of Emmanuel Macron and the eve of the European elections.

The yellow vests, whose unprecedented movement has lasted more than six months, were about 3,200 throughout France, including 1,200 in Paris, according to figures at 14H from the Ministry of the Interior.

The ministry, whose count is challenged every week by the demonstrators, counted last week at the same time 2,800 people including 1,100 in the capital.

The demonstrations were generally peaceful.

In Amiens, where the President of the Republic was born, protesters said they were determined to "go and get Macron home" by "taking" his city. Between 1,200 yellow vests, according to the prefecture of the Somme, and 2,000 according to the organizers, parade in an overall festive atmosphere, despite some throwing projectiles and tear gas grenades.

In Toulouse, around 2,000 protesters roamed the streets of the center, chanting the now traditional anti-Macron songs.

Two processions in Paris

In Paris where two processions broke the pavement, the first, undeclared, gathered according to a journalist from AFP a good hundred people, marching without their distinctive vest - a fact unpublished - at the call of several figures of the movement , including Éric Drouet.

They left the west of the capital and, playing cat and mouse with the police who made several use of tear gas grenades, they then joined the Republic Square.

In the late afternoon, in this square, about thirty people threw projectiles on the police, who responded with tear gas.

Another procession, declared this time, joined Montmartre hill from the Père Lachaise cemetery.

In Montpellier, where around 950 people paraded quietly, a banner at the head of the procession called out to the government: "Bloquons Blanquer, Castagnons Castaner, Matons Macron".

In Strasbourg, theater of a "convergence of struggles" between "yellow vests" and walking for the climate, dozens of "yellow vests" were present in the procession for the environment, composed according to the police of about 850 people.

With AFP